Baker&#39;s peel.



G. .I. KRAUSHAAR.

BAKERS PEEL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 8. I913.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J KRAUsHAAR,

citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bakers Peels, of which the following isa specification.

' This invention consists. in an improvement in bakers peels, all substantially as shown and described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 1s a bottom view of a peel constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a longi tudinal sectional elevation thereof, and Fig.

3 is a cross section on line 33, Fig. 1.

The improvement as thus shown comprisesa metallic blade 6, preferably of aluminum but not limited thereto nor to any particularmetal though lightness is important, and designed to substitute the wooden peel in common use. others have made metallic peels of one form and another andI do not therefore lay claim to originality in the use of metal for this purpose except that mine is made of aluminum and therefore light and otherwise desirable, but I am not aware that any 7 i one has ever before made or known of a peel having the structuralpeculiarities of myinvention. It is also to be noted that notwith standing ventures heretofore made in metal:

lic peels it remains true that the old-fashioned wooden peel is the only one in common use and it has been holding the trade as if no other kind he d ever been known or used.

But'a wooden peel has .a large number of weaknesses or objections and, notably, its liability to split and also to burn. In fact it requires the very best of wood andspe- 'cially skilled workmanship to make awooden peel which will hold its shape through all conditions of temperature and last a reasonable length of time, and this makes such peels very expensive at first cost in addition to being short lived at the-best.

The present invention is, therefore, de-

signed to provide a thoroughly practical construction of all metal which is light in pointof weight'and which will last for an indefinite period because it is strong and rigid and can even be left in the oven during baking and not'be injured by the heat.

To these ends the peel shown is cast from Of course I am aware that 'bottom of the oven.

aluminum with a so-called body or blade 2 havinga flat smooth top surface its entire length and'width and a series of longitu-' dinal tapered-ribs '3 on its. bottom'lengthwise and terminating at the rear edgeof the front approximately wedge-shaped portion 4. The taper of the saidribs is from the rear to the front and the ,two central" ribs terminate atthe rear in a special rein forcement 5 immediately at the front of the socket portion 6 for the'handle 7 thereby; constituting a spider like formation at the rear and bottom of the blade. The said ribs serve to strengthen the blade between its ends and to give a practically rigid ef-i fect notwithstanding the comparative lightness of thearticle as a whole, and hence the convenienceand easein handling, which are material considerations inan articlefof this kind. f 1 Ease and convenience in the manlpulatlon of the peel in the oven are further enhanced by means of two' roller balls or casters of ball shape indicated by 8 and sup'portedin suitable sockets castin the body and rear of the blade in a balancing relation as to .the sides thereof and so disposed and. arranged that the weight upon the peel will ried by the, said balls. A suitable cage or cap 10 is employed to confine the ball in said socket and has" a flange about its edge through which it is riveted or otherwise'secured to the body about the socket therein. By these means the peel can be loaded and run on said rollers to the rea r'portion of the oven with comparative ease, and the said rollers are equally advantageous in remov-' 1 ing the baking from the oven. A smooth even top surface is desirable on several accounts, as, for example, in the handling of rye bread which is baked directly'upon the in thereon and dipped off onto the oven floor 'by a quick back action uponthe peel.

What I claim is:

to end and a spider formation at its'rear and bottom constructed to affix a handle As a new article of manufacture, a bakers peel havinga blade cast in a single p ece of; metal and provldedwith a flat topfrom end 7 thereto and having a series of longitudinally disposed ribs at intervals between its sides tapered from. the rear toward its front 9,51 The unbaked loaves are therefore placed on the peel and run.

and the front portion of the peel fiat on In testimony whereof I affix my signature both sides in advance of said ribs, and said in presence of two Witnesses.

blade having sockets at its rear and sides a and caster balls in said sockets projecting J' KRAUSHAAR beneath said ribs and adapted to provide a WVitnesses:

universal movement for said blade over the E. M. FISHER,

surface of the oven." F. C. MUSSUN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

